1 November 2017

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 30A, 29 October 2017, on Matthew 22:34-40

1 November 2017

Homilies

As over the past six Sundays, we find Jesus today in conflict with Jewish leaders who are out to destroy him. So today’s Gospel begins with yet another device, yet another trick question, yet another trap, designed to ensnare...

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27 October 2017

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, Sunday 28A, 15 October 2017, on Matthew 22:1-14

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27 October 2017

Homilies

Through the parable of the Royal Wedding Banquet we hear the thrilling invitation of Jesus: Come to my feast! Put on your glorious attire! Enter into my joy! This is God’s invitation to us to enter eternal life; to clothe ourselves in the incomparable dignity...

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17 October 2017

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 27A, 8 October 2017, on Matthew 21:33-43

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17 October 2017

Homilies

For the third week running we have a parable about a vineyard. Each one of these parables has been aimed against the Jewish Priests, Elders, Scribes...

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27 September 2017

Homilies

Homily for the 8 o’clock Mass, 24 September 2017, Sunday 25A, on Matthew 20:1-16

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27 September 2017

Homilies

The parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard, like several other of the parables of the Kingdom, is found in St. Matthew’s Gospel alone. In the verse immediately before it, at

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15 September 2017

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 23A, preached by the Prior of Pluscarden at Rydebäck Karmel

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15 September 2017

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 23A, preached by the Prior of Pluscarden at Rydebäck Karmel
It’s perhaps not often you hear a Sunday Homily commenting on the Responsorial Psalm of the Mass. But the Psalm which...

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14 September 2017

Homilies

Sermon for 8 September 2017

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14 September 2017

Homilies

Preached by the Prior of Pluscarden at Rydebäck Karmel.
Occupying pride of place in our refectory at Pluscarden is our statue of St. Anne. We inherited the statue from...

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21 August 2017

Homilies

Homily for Sunday 20A, 19 August 2017, on Psalm 83 and Matthew 15:21-28

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21 August 2017

Homilies

Through all the many liturgical reforms of the past millennium and more, today’s Entrance Chant has survived intact. We find it heading the texts given for today’s Mass in the current Roman Missal. We...

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9 August 2017

Homilies

Homily for the Feast of the Transfiguration– Sunday 6th August 2017

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9 August 2017

Homilies

St. Matthew tells us that Jesus takes his three closest associates, Peter, James and John, to a high mountain, “apart”. St. Mark uses the same word, but St. Luke omits the detail. For the evangelists, this word “apart” is associated with a certain...